Michael N. Huhns

 

Publications: Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, Including Ontologies

 

September 14, 2025

 

Papers in Journals

 

1.      John Tyler, Jon Pastor, Michael N. Huhns, Shad Kirmani, and Hongying Du, “Exposing, Formalizing, and Reasoning over the Latent Semantics in Tagged Multimodal Data Sources,” Applied Ontology, IOS Press, vol. 8, 2013, pp. 95-130. [PDF]
https://doi.org/10.3233/AO-130124

2.      Jingsong Wang, John Byrnes, Marco Valtorta, and Michael Huhns, “On the combination of logical and probabilistic models for information analysis,” Applied Intelligence, vol. 36, no. 2, March 2012, pp. 472-497. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10489-010-0272-x [PDF]

3.      Chao Fu, Michael Huhns, and Shanlin Yang, “A consensus framework for multiple attribute group decision analysis in an evidential reasoning context,” Information Fusion, December 2011. [PDF] https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2011.12.002 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1566253511000819

4.      Jingshan Huang, Jiangbo Dang, Michael N. Huhns, and W. Jim Zheng, “Use artificial neural network to align biological ontologies,” BMC Genomics, vol. 9, September 16, 2008. [PDF]
http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2164/9/S2/S16

5.      Jingshan Huang, Jiangbo Dang, Michael N. Huhns and Yongzhen Shao, “Ontology Alignment as a Basis for Mobile Service Integration and Invocation,” Journal of Pervasive Computing and Communications, vol. 3, no. 2, 2007, pp. 138-158. https://doi.org/10.1108/17427370710847282 [PDF]

6.      Larry M. Stephens, Aurovinda K. Gangam, and Michael N. Huhns, “Constructing Consensus Ontologies for the Semantic Web: A Conceptual Approach,” World Wide Web Journal, Kluwer Academic Publishers, vol. 7, no. 4, December 2004, pp. 421-442. [PDF]

7.      Michael N. Huhns, “Being and Acting Rational,” IEEE Internet Computing, vol. 7, no. 2, March/April 2003, pp. 91-93. [PDF]

8.      William H. Turkett Jr., John R. Rose, and Michael N. Huhns, “Massive Deliberation,” IEEE Internet Computing, vol. 7, no. 1, January/February 2003, pp. 79-82. [PDF]

9.      Larry M. Stephens and Michael N. Huhns, “Consensus Ontologies: Reconciling the Semantics of Web Pages and Agents,” IEEE Internet Computing, vol. 5, no. 5, September/October 2001, pp. 92-95. [PDF]

10.   Kuhanandha Mahalingam and Michael N. Huhns, “Ontology Tools for Semantic Reconciliation in Distributed Heterogeneous Information Environments,” Intelligent Automation and Soft Computing (special issue on Distributed Intelligent Systems, Mohamed Kamel and Mohammad Jamshidi, editors), vol. 6, no. 3, 2000, pp. 1-8. [PDF]

11.   Michael N. Huhns and Larry M. Stephens, “Exploiting Expertise through Knowledge Networks,” IEEE Internet Computing, vol. 3, no. 6, November/December 1999, pp. 90-91. [PDF]

12.   Michael N. Huhns and Larry M. Stephens, “Personal Ontologies,” IEEE Internet Computing, vol. 3, no. 5, September/October 1999, pp. 85-87. [PDF]

13.   Michael N. Huhns and Munindar P. Singh, “Ontologies for Agents,” IEEE Internet Computing, vol. 1, no. 6, November/December 1997, pp. 81-83. [PDF]

14.   Kuhanandha Mahalingam and Michael N. Huhns, “A Tool for Organizing Web Information,” IEEE Computer, vol. 30, no. 6, June 1997, pp.80-83. 10.1109/2.587553 [PDF]

15.   Munindar P. Singh and Michael N. Huhns, “Automating Workflows for Service Order Processing: Integrating AI and Database Technologies,” IEEE Expert, vol. 9, no. 5, October 1994, pp. 19-23. [PDF]

16.   Michael N. Huhns and David M. Bridgeland, “Multiagent Truth Maintenance,” IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, vol. 21, no. 6, December 1991, pp. 1437-1445. [PDF]

17.   Michael N. Huhns and Ramon D. Acosta, “Argo: A System for Design by Analogy,” IEEE Expert, vol. 3, no. 3, Fall 1988, pp. 53-68. [PDF]

 

Chapters in Books

 

1.      Michael N. Huhns, Marco G. Valtorta, and Jingsong Wang, “Design Principles for Ontological Support of Bayesian Evidence Management,” Chapter 10 in Ontologies and Semantic Technologies for Intelligence, Leo Obrst, Terry Janssen, and Werner Ceusters, eds., IOS Press, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2010, pp. 163-178. [PDF]

2.      Viji Avali and Michael N. Huhns, “Commitment-Based Multiagent Decision Making,” in Cooperative Information Agents CIA 2008, Matthias Klusch, Michal Pechoucek, and Axel Polleres, editors, Springer, vol. LNAI 5180, Berlin, 2008, pp. 249-263. [PDF]

3.      Jingshan Huang, Jiangbo Dang, and Michael N. Huhns, “Ontology-Based Partner Selection in Business Interaction,” in Handbook of Ontologies for Business Interaction, Peter Rittgen, editor, Information Science Reference, Hershey, PA, 2008, pp. 364-380. [PDF]

4.      Jingshan Huang, Rosa Laura Zavala Gutiérrez, Benito Mendoza García, and Michael N. Huhns, “Reconciling Agent Ontologies for Web Service Applications,” in Multiagent System Technologies: Third German Conference, MATES 2005, Torsten Eymann, Franziska Klügl, Winfried Lamersdorf, Matthias Klusch, and Michael N. Huhns, editors, Springer Verlag, vol. LNAI 3550, Berlin, 2005, pp. 106-117. [PDF]

5.      Michael N. Huhns and Larry M. Stephens, “Semantic Bridging of Independent Enterprise Ontologies,” in Enterprise Inter- and Intra-Organizational Integration: Building International Consensus, Kurt Kosanke et al., editors, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, MA, 2002. [PDF]

6.      Michael N. Huhns, “Foreword,” in Information Brokering over Heterogeneous Digital Data: A Metadata-Based Approach, by Vipul Kashyap and Amit Sheth, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, MA, 2000. [PDF]

7.      Michael N. Huhns and Ramon D. Acosta, “Argo: An Analogical Reasoning System for Solving Design Problems,” in Artificial Intelligence in Engineering Design, Volume II, Christopher Tong and Duvvuru Sriram, editors, Academic Press, Inc., San Diego, CA, 1992. [PDF]

8.      Michael N. Huhns and David M. Bridgeland, “Distributed Truth Maintenance,” in Cooperating Knowledge Based Systems 1990, S. M. Deen, editor, Springer Verlag, London, England, 1991, pp. 133-147.

 

 

Papers in Refereed Proceedings

 

1.      Line C. Pouchard, Michael N. Huhns, and Thomas W. Narock, “Increasing the Availability and Reuse of Earth Science Ontologies Using a Repository,” Proceedings of 11th International Conference on Open Repositories, Dublin, June 2016.
http://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.31843.14886.

2.      Saurabh Lalwani and Michael N. Huhns, “Deriving Ontological Structure from a Folksonomy,” Proc. 47th Annual ACM Southeast Conference, Clemson, SC, USA, March 19-21, 2009. [PDF]

3.      Michael N. Huhns and Marco G. Valtorta, “Ontological Support for Bayesian Evidence Management,” in Ontology for the Intelligence Community: Towards Effective Exploitation and Integration of Intelligence Resources (OIC 2007), Columbia, MD, November 2007, pp. 47-52. [PDF]

4.      Marco Valtorta, John Byrnes, and Michael N. Huhns, “Logical and Probabilistic Reasoning to Support Information Analysis in Uncertain Domains,” Progic Workshop on Probability and Logic, Canterbury, UK, July 2007. [PDF]

5.      Jingshan Huang, Jiangbo Dang, Jose M. Vidal, and Michael N. Huhns, “Ontology Matching Using an Artificial Neural Network to Learn Weights,” Proc. IJCAI Workshop on Semantic Web for Collaborative Knowledge Acquisition (SWeCKa-07), Hyderabad, India, January 2007. [PDF]

6.      Hong Jiang and Michael N. Huhns, “Broadening the Semantic Coverage of Agent Communicative Acts,” Agent-Oriented Information Systems III, Springer Verlag, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 3529, November 2006, pp. 32-47.

7.      Jingshan Huang and Michael N. Huhns, “Superconcept Formation System–An Ontology Matching Algorithm for Service Discovery,” Proc. Service Discovery on the WWW Workshop (sdisco’06), Beijing, PRC, September 2006. [PDF]

8.      Jingshan Huang, Jiangbo Dang, and Michael N. Huhns, “Ontology Reconciliation for Service-Oriented Computing,” Proc. IEEE International Conference on Services Computing, Chicago, IL, September 2006, pp. 3-10. [PDF] [First Runner-up for Best Student Paper]

9.      Jingshan Huang, Jiangbo Dang, and Michael N. Huhns, “Reconciling Ontologies for Coordination among E-business Agents,” Proc. AAMAS Workshop on Business Agents and the Semantic Web, Hakodate, Japan, May 2006. [PDF]

10.   Stephen V. Cole, Matthew D. Royal, Marco G. Valtorta, Michael N. Huhns, and John B. Bowles, “A Lightweight Tool for Automatically Extracting Causal Relationships from Text,” Proceedings of IEEE Southeastcon, March 2006, pp. 125-129. [PDF]

11.   Hong Jiang and Michael N. Huhns, “An Approach to Broaden the Semantic Coverage of ACL Speech Acts,” Seventh International Bi-Conference Workshop on Agent-Oriented Information Systems (AOIS-2005), Klagenfurt, Austria, Springer Verlag, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 3770, October 2005, pp. 162-171. [PDF]

12.   Jingshan Huang, Laura Zavala, Benito Mendoza, and Michael N. Huhns, “Sharing Ontology Schema Information for Web Service Integration,” Proc. 5th International Conference on Computer and Information Technology, Shanghai, China, September 2005, pp. 1056-1062. [PDF]

13.   Jingshan Huang, Laura Zavala, Benito Mendoza, and Michael N. Huhns, “A Schema-Based Approach Combined with Inter-Ontology Reasoning to Construct Consensus Ontologies,” Proc. AAAI Workshop on Contexts and Ontologies: Theory, Practice and Applications, Technical Report WS-05-01, AAAI Press, Menlo Park, CA, July 2005, pp. 80-87. [PDF]

14.   Marco Valtorta, Jiangbo Dang, Hrishikesh Goradia, Jingshan Huang, and Michael Huhns, “Extending Heuer’s Analysis of Competing Hypotheses Method to Support Complex Decision Analysis,” International Conference on Intelligence Analysis Methods and Tools, May 2005. [PDF]

15.   Larry M. Stephens, Aurovinda K. Gangam, and Michael N. Huhns, “Developing Consensus Ontologies for the Semantic Web,” in Proceedings of the Workshop on Semantic Integration, Sanibel Island, FL, October 2003, pp. 86-92. [PDF]

16.   Michael N. Huhns and Larry M. Stephens, “Consensus Ontologies: Reconciling Enterprise Semantics,” in Proc. Third International Conference on Enterprise Integration and Modeling Technology, Valencia, Spain, April 2002.

17.   Kuhanandha Mahalingam and Michael N. Huhns, “An Ontology Tool for Query Formulation in an Agent-Based Context,” in Proceedings International Conference on Cooperating Information Systems, Kiawah Island, SC, June 1997. [PDF]

18.   Michael N. Huhns and Larry M. Stephens, “Plausible Inferencing Using Extended Composition,” in Proceedings of IJCAI-89, Detroit, MI, August 1989, pp.1420-1425. [PDF]

19.   Michael N. Huhns and C. J. Petrie Jr., “Controlling Forward Rule Instances,” in Avignon 88: Eighth International Workshop on Expert Systems and their Applications, Avignon, France, June 1988.

20.   Michael N. Huhns and Ramon D. Acosta, “Formulating and Retrieving Knowledge through Abstraction Extensions to Explanation Based Learning,” in Proceedings AAAI Spring Symposium on Explanation-Based Learning, Stanford, CA, March 1988, pp. 117-121.

21.   Ramon D. Acosta and Michael N. Huhns, “Design by Analogy Using Plan Abstractions,” in Proceedings AAAI-88 Workshop on AI and Design, 1988. [PDF]

22.   Michael N. Huhns and Ramon D. Acosta, “Argo: A System for Design by Analogy,” in Proceedings of the Fourth Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications, San Diego, CA, March 1988, pp. 146-151. [PDF] [Best Paper Award]

23.   Ramon D. Acosta, Michael N. Huhns, and Shiuh-li Liuh, “Analogical Reasoning for Digital System Synthesis,” in IEEE International Conference on Computer-Aided Design, Santa Clara, CA, November 1986, pp. 173-176. [PDF]

 

 

Technical Reports and Other Papers

 

1.      Line C. Pouchard, Michael N. Huhns, and Thomas W. Narock, “Working with a Community-based Organization to Support an Ontology Infrastructure,” abstract and presentation at Coalition for Networked Information Spring 2016 Meeting, San Antonio, TX, April 2016.

2.      Marco Valtorta, John Byrnes, Michael Huhns, and Richard Rohwer, “Combining Facts and Expert Opinion in Analytical Models via Logical and Probabilistic Reasoning,” USC CSE Technical Report TR-2006-12, July 2006.

3.      Elizabeth T. Whitaker, Marco G. Valtorta, and Michael N. Huhns, “Building and Evaluating Analytical Models Using Case-Based Reasoning for Knowledge Discovery and Bayesian Evidence Management,” NIMD Technical Report TP_GTRI_060418, April 2006.

4.      Michael N. Huhns and Larry M. Stephens, “Dynamic Reconciliation of Semantics among Numerous Local Ontologies: A Preliminary Report,” USC CIT Technical Report, May 2001. [PDF]

5.      Michael N. Huhns, “Information Technology – Specification and standardization of data elements—Part 2: Classification for data elements,” ISO/IEC 11179-2 (international standard), for ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC32, December 1999. ISO/IEC TR 11179-2:2019 - Information technology — Metadata registries (MDR) — Part 2: Classification

6.      Kuhanandha Mahalingam and Michael N. Huhns, “Representing and Using Ontologies,” USC CIT Technical Report 98-01, January 1998. [PDF]

7.      David M. Bridgeland and Michael N. Huhns, “Distributed Truth Maintenance,” MCC Technical Report Number ACT-RA-082-90, Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation, Austin, TX, February 1990.

8.      Natraj Arni, David M. Bridgeland, James Christian, Michael N. Huhns, Charles J. Petrie Jr., Elaine Rich, James Shea, and Munindar P. Singh, “Overview of RAD:  A Hybrid and Distributed Reasoning Tool,” MCC Technical Report Number ACT-RA-098-90, Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation, Austin, TX, February 1990.

9.      Elaine Rich, Natraj Arni, David M. Bridgeland, James Christian, Michael N. Huhns, Charles J. Petrie Jr., James Shea, and Munindar P. Singh, “Reasoning Architectures In-Depth Review,” MCC Technical Report Number ACT-RA-090-90-P, Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation, Austin, TX, February 1990.

10.   Natraj Arni, David M. Bridgeland, James Christian, Michael N. Huhns, Charles J. Petrie Jr., Elaine Rich, James Shea, and Munindar P. Singh, “RAD:  A Hybrid and Distributed Reasoning Tool,” MCC Technical Report Number ACT-RA-075-90-Q, Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation, Austin, TX, February 1990.

11.   Michael N. Huhns and N. Arni, “Distributed Reasoning among Expert Systems,” MCC Technical Report Number ACT-AI-378-89, Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation, Austin, TX, October 1989. [PDF]

12.   Michael N. Huhns and Larry M. Stephens, “Extended Composition of Relations,” MCC Technical Report Number ACA-AI-376-88, Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation, Austin, TX, November 1988.

13.   Michael N. Huhns and Larry M. Stephens, “Knowledge Classification in CYC,” MCC Technical Report Number ACA-AI-091-88-Q, Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation, Austin, TX, April 1988.

14.   Michael N. Huhns and Ramon D. Acosta, “Formulating and Retrieving Knowledge through Abstraction Extensions to Explanation-Based Learning,” MCC Technical Report Number AI/CAD-038-88, Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation, Austin, TX, January 1988. [PDF]

15.   Michael N. Huhns and Ramon D. Acosta, “Argo User's Guide,” MCC Technical Report Number AI/CAD-158-87-Q, Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation, Austin, TX, June 1987. [PDF]

16.   Michael N. Huhns and Ramon D. Acosta, “Alternative Explanation Structures for Explanation-Based Learning,” MCC Technical Report Number ACA/AI-CAD-079-88, Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation, Austin, TX, March 1988. [PDF]

17.   Michael N. Huhns and Ramon D. Acosta, “Argo: An Analogical Reasoning System for Solving Design Problems,” MCC Technical Report Number AI/CAD-092-87, Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation, Austin, TX, March 16, 1987. [PDF]

18.   Michael N. Huhns and Shiuh-li Liuh, “Using a TMS for EBG,” MCC Technical Report Number AI-445-86, Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation, Austin, TX, December 1986. [PDF]

19.   Michael N. Huhns, I. Lee, Ronald D. Bonnell, and Larry M. Stephens, “Logical Data Modeling for the Intelligent File System,” USCMI Technical Report 85-07, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, June 1985.

20.   U. Mukhopadhyay, M. N. Huhns, R. D. Bonnell, and L. M. Stephens, “A Two-Layer Learning System for Document Retrieval in Multiple-User Environments,” USCMI Technical Report 85-04, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, March 1985. [PDF]